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James Fenton has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,…
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What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit…
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of…
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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open…
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on…
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A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living…
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This…
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that…
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,…
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that…
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Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things…
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Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it,
— Emmanuel Lubezki
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Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has…
— Billy Graham
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At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak.…
— Rosika Schwimmer
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Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light?…
— John Donne
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